QUESTION:
The People's Republic of China was founded on October 1, 1949 by Chairman Mao Zedong from the Gate of Heavenly Peace, overlooking Tiananmen square.

It had been a long march for Chairman Mao from his birth place in the small village of Shaoshan in the southern Chinese province of Hunan.

When was Chairman Mao born:

A. December 26, 1893
B. December 25, 1901
C. April 29, 1939
D. September 9, 1976

ANSWERS:
A is correct! Mao was the first-born son of a Hunanese farmer at a time when Emperor Guangxu ruled in far-off Beijing. Mao started working with his father in the fields at the age of six, but two years later was sent to the local school.

From these beginnings, he went on to lead the then nearly 500 million Chinese to form the People's Republic of China which remains today.

You are wrong if you said D. September 9, 1976 was the date that the Chairman passed away and is still a day of rememberance for many Chinese.